[591] Thucyd. viii, 32, 33.
[592] Thucyd. viii, 33, 34.
[593] Thucyd. viii, 34-38. Δελφίνιον—λιμένας ἔχον, etc.
That the Athenians should select Lesbos on this occasion as the base of their operations, and as the immediate scene of last preparations, against Chios,—was only repeating what they had once done before (c. 24), and what they again did afterwards (c. 100). I do not feel the difficulty which strikes Dobree and Dr. Thirlwall. Doubtless Delphinium was to the north of the city of Chios.
[594] Thucyd. viii, 38-40. About the slaves in Chios, see the extracts from Theopompus and Nymphodôrus in Athenæus, vi, p. 265.
That from Nymphodôrus appears to be nothing but a romantic local legend, connected with the Chapel of the Kind-hearted Hero (Ἥρωος εὐμένους) at Chios.
Even in antiquity, though the institution of slavery was universal and noway disapproved, yet the slave-trade, or the buying and selling of slaves, was accounted more or less odious.
[595] See the life of Lysias the Rhetor, in Dionysius of Halikarnassus, c. i, p. 453, Reisk., and in Plutarch, Vit. x, Orat. p. 835.
[596] Thucyd. viii, 35-109.
[597] Thucyd. viii, 35, 36. καὶ γὰρ μισθὸς ἐδίδοτο ἀρκούντως, etc.